keech

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English

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Etymology

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Compare dialectal English keech (cake), perhaps ultimately a back-formation from Middle English kechel (small cake).

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Noun

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keech (plural keeches)

  1. (obsolete) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
    • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
      I wonder
      That such a keech can with his very bulk
      Take up the rays o' th' beneficial sun,
      And keep it from the earth.
    • 1889, Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, Ten Years' Wild Sports in Foreign Lands: Or, Travels in the Eighties:
      I observed them [natives of British Columbia] on another occasion content with merely warming keeches of raw and solid flesh under their naked armpits.

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Scots

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Noun

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keech (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of kich

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